Desktops - Page 13

Asher · March 18, 2004, 00:37

Also, this is how you doooooooooooo it:

It's funny how it's taking about 5 hours to install KDE on Linux, and it took under 5 minutes for KDE on Windows...

Asher · March 18, 2004, 00:38

By the way, the fonts in KDE3.1 sure are fugly.

Q Classic · March 18, 2004, 00:39

damn straight.

here's my desktop right now.

Q Classic · March 18, 2004, 00:40

yeah, the default fonts in kde3.1 leave much to be desired.

which is why in gentoo you generally emerge all of the windows fonts, too.

Asher · March 18, 2004, 00:41

Anyone here geeky enough to know what that is in my xemacs window?

Q Classic · March 18, 2004, 00:43

oh, and asher: the 5 hours thing:

in gentoo, you're actually compiling everything. for the windows/cygwin? it's all binaries. so while in linux you're actually compiling it for your computer, in windows/cygwin, you're just copying files.

you do know that portage will allow you to copy kde binaries, though, right? with the GRPs?

Asher · March 18, 2004, 00:44

Didn't know that.

How do you tell Gentoo to emerge things as binaries?

There's not much point in recompiling AMD64 **** since it's all optimized for the exact same processor anyway...

Agathon · March 18, 2004, 00:47

Quote:

Originally posted by Asher
Own goal?

fsck is a *nix command.

Slow today aren't we?

Why do you think I put the -y on the end in the last line?

Q Classic · March 18, 2004, 00:50

well, do you have the GRP cds?

generally, xfree and kde would be on the second of the cds, so.

the command is:

emerge --usepkg package

you'll probably have to copy them over before you can do that, though.
they should be on the second cd in the /All/ folder, and just copy everything into /usr/portage/Packages/All/

Asher · March 18, 2004, 00:51

I've no idea, because -y isn't a valid option for fsck as far as I know...

Asher · March 18, 2004, 00:52

Quote:

Originally posted by Q Cubed
well, do you have the GRP cds?

generally, xfree and kde would be on the second of the cds, so.

the command is:

emerge --usepkg package

you'll probably have to copy them over before you can do that, though.
they should be on the second cd in the /All/ folder, and just copy everything into /usr/portage/Packages/All/

I don't think there are GRP CDs for AMD64.

Minimal and Universal only -- single CDs.

Q Classic · March 18, 2004, 00:52

i'm willing to wager it'll be on the packages cd.

ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribu...2004.0/livecd/

Q Classic · March 18, 2004, 00:55

-y is a valid switch in mac os. i don' t know what it does, though.

Q Classic · March 18, 2004, 00:58

who | grep -i blonde | date
talk
cd ~
wine
touch
unzip
strip
finger
mount
fsck
more
yes
gasp
umount
make clean
sleep

Q Classic · March 18, 2004, 00:59

http://www.osxfaq.com/man/8/fsck.ws

-y means that it assumes yes as the answer to everything.

Fve Crathva · March 18, 2004, 01:12

Quote:

Originally posted by Asher
Anyone here geeky enough to know what that is in my xemacs window?

Is it part of a compiler? You spelled 'recursive' wrong.

The best thing I've seen on Linux is when my MOLD installation started saying, "Uhhuh, NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue..." when I was working on the command line. I think it was a memory problem or something, because it happened when I was compiling large packages.

SP

Asher · March 18, 2004, 01:16

Quote:

Originally posted by Fve Crathva
Is it part of a compiler? You spelled 'recursive' wrong.

Yes, it's a scanner for the "Limbo" language.

And thanks for the typo catch.

Agathon · March 18, 2004, 01:43

Quote:

Originally posted by Asher
I've no idea, because -y isn't a valid option for fsck as far as I know...

Yes to all.

fsck -y is one of the few terminal commands I've ever needed to use. sudo is the other one.

Fve Crathva · March 18, 2004, 02:05

Mac users have trouble with the concept of piping the `yes` command. To be fair, so do most PC users.

SP

Q Classic · March 18, 2004, 02:19

wrong thread.

Inverse Icarus · March 19, 2004, 15:57

Quote:

Originally posted by Asher
Anyone here geeky enough to know what that is in my xemacs window?

thats a lex file

edit: you called it a limbo file, but it looks quite similar to lex. probably does the same basic things too

Asher · March 19, 2004, 23:40

Quote:

Originally posted by Uber KruX
thats a lex file

edit: you called it a limbo file, but it looks quite similar to lex. probably does the same basic things too

It is a lex file, but it's forms a scanner for the Limbo programming language.

Provost Harrison · March 20, 2004, 07:05

No desktops but lots of gibberish...

Drake Tungsten · March 21, 2004, 10:35

My trip this weekend has yielded a new desktop.